Congress warns that Commercial Baby Foods are tainted with Heavy Metals
Here’s what foods to worry about and how to make your own baby food
On February 4, 2021, the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy of the Committee on Oversight and Reform issued a report, “Baby Foods are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury.”
According to the report, the FDA received a “secret slide presentation” from Hain (Earth’s Best Organic) on August 1, 2020, which showed increased risks of toxic heavy metals in baby foods. Because of this information, on November 6, 2020, the subcommittee requested internal documents and test results from seven of the largest manufacturers of organic and non-organic baby food in the US.
Four of the companies responded. Nurture, Beech-Nut, Hain and Gerber produced their internal testing policies, test results for ingredients and/or finished products as well as documentation about what the companies did when internal testing limits were exceeded.
Walmart (Parent’s Choice), Campbell (Plum Organics), and Sprout Organic Foods refused to cooperate with the subcommittee’s investigation, and as a result, the subcommittee voiced “grave concerns” about their baby food products.
